At Microsoft Ignite, we introduced key product updates to allow your FinOps journey.
As chances are you’ll know, November is the month for Microsoft’s largest buyer and companion occasion—Microsoft Ignite. This yr, we within the Value administration staff, introduced key product updates at this occasion to allow your FinOps journey. Under, you’ll discover a abstract of those enhancements. We invite you to discover and take full benefit of those new options!
Let’s dig into the main points.
Exports to Microsoft Material
Exports is an effective way to get your prices and worth datasets to your storage, evaluation and reporting wants. It is extremely simple to arrange and you may configure it to run at a recurring schedule with no handbook intervention. You possibly can shortly set it up utilizing the Azure portal or via the API. This yr we now have made a number of enhancements to our exports answer together with assist for added datasets, assist for parquet format and compression. We simply added yet one more to this checklist! At Ignite, we introduced restricted availability of our Exports to Material connector OneLake. With this new characteristic, you possibly can export your prices and worth datasets on to Microsoft Material, saving you effort and time to ingest price information into Material out of your storage account.
Please observe that this characteristic isn’t typically accessible but. You possibly can join us to allow this performance to your account by submitting this form. Our staff will get again to you through e-mail with related directions within the January timeframe.
With Microsoft Material, you get a unified platform to your information storage, evaluation, and reporting wants. You possibly can mix information from a number of sources and leverage Material’s built-in Energy BI to create reporting dashboards for your small business wants. Moreover, you should use pure language prompts to achieve insights into your information and for predictive analytics. Study extra about Fabric and its’ powerful capabilities.
Azure OpenAI Service prices
Azure OpenAI view
In our last blog, I wrote about how simple it’s to handle your Azure OpenAI Service prices in Cost analysis. You possibly can analyze prices for various time durations, monitor prices utilizing scheduled emails and budgets, and optimize your prices by leveraging Azure OpenAI provisioned reservations.
To make it even simpler so that you can analyze your Azure OpenAI prices, we’re thrilled to announce the supply of a brand new built-in view: Azure OpenAI. On this new view, you possibly can view the prices of operating all of your fashions for various time durations (precise and amortized each). This view additionally contains the prices for reservation purchases if the buying subscription is below the chosen scope.
You possibly can entry this view in Value evaluation below All Views -> Good Views as proven within the screenshot beneath:
Copilot simulation for Azure OpenAI Service
As you already know, Copilot is a superb software for getting your cost-related queries answered utilizing pure language. For instance, you possibly can ask Copilot your prices for operating Azure OpenAI deployments as proven within the immediate beneath:
Now, we now have prolonged our Copilot capabilities to even provide help to estimate prices to your Azure OpenAI token-based deployments. An instance immediate is included beneath:
That is just the start, we’ll proceed to make enhancements to assist extra simulation situations making it simpler so that you can estimate and therefore plan to your Azure spend.
As at all times, you possibly can proceed to make use of the pricing calculator for all of your estimation wants together with Azure OpenAI.
Azure Copilot to Value evaluation
We now have made an thrilling replace to your Copilot expertise for Value Administration by integrating Cost analysis into the Copilot generated responses. In many of the responses, you’ll discover a “View in Value evaluation” button which takes you to the personalized Value evaluation view based mostly in your immediate. This allows you to take additional motion in Value evaluation like analyzing price with completely different parameters, sharing the view with others in your staff, getting e-mail alerts, and extra.
To start out using this characteristic, merely ask your cost-related query such as you would usually do. There isn’t any additional configuration wanted. For instance:
Clicking on the “View in Value Evaluation” button from the response will open a brand new Value evaluation view grouped by service title for October 2024. You possibly can stay targeted in your process in hand whereas Copilot does the required configurations for you!
Should you nonetheless haven’t given Copilot in Azure a strive to your cost-related questions, I strongly encourage you to strive some pattern prompts we now have so that you can get began.
New methods to economize within the Microsoft Cloud
Listed below are some gives that may doubtlessly provide help to cut back prices:
Documentation updates
Listed below are just a few documentation updates you is likely to be curious about:
Need to keep watch over all documentation updates? Take a look at the Cost Management and Billing documentation change history within the azure-docs repository on GitHub. Should you see one thing lacking, choose Edit on the high of the doc and submit a fast pull request. You may also submit a GitHub concern. We welcome and admire all contributions!
What’s subsequent?
These are just some of the massive updates from final month. Don’t overlook to take a look at the previous Microsoft Cost Management updates. We’re at all times listening and making fixed enhancements based mostly in your suggestions, so please preserve the suggestions coming.
